User Manual: add text for bailout using PSCR

As the title says.

A few tiny other changes to the user manual as well.
Corrected a some typos (Thanks, @neolit123).

Signed-off-by: Willem Ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za>
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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ image::images/Subsurface4Banner.jpg["Banner",align="center"]
Linus Torvalds, Miika Turkia, Amit Chaudhuri, Jan Schubert, Salvador Cuñat, Pedro Neves,
Stefan Fuchs
[blue]#_Version 4.7, October 2017_#
[blue]#_Version 4.7, May 2018_#
Welcome as a user of _Subsurface_, an advanced dive logging program with
extensive infrastructure to describe, organize, interpret and print scuba
@ -3993,6 +3993,40 @@ in the loop due to the oxygen drop across the mouthpiece of the pSCR equipment.
image::images/Planner_pSCR.jpg["FIGURE: Planning a pSCR dive: setup",align="center"]
==== Planning for pSCR bailout
[icon="images/pscr_b1.jpg"]
[NOTE]
Open circuit diving is often part of a pSCR dive because, at shallow depths, the pO~2~ in the loop is often
too low for breathing and the shallow parts of a pSCR dive are often done on OC. The change
from rebreather mode to OC or _vice versa_ is indicated using bailout events. The image on the
left shows a pSCR dive plan (using three cylinders) where the shallow parts of the dive are performed using EAN50 in
order to have a sufficient pO~2~. The bottom part of the dive is perfomed with EAN31 (Cyl. 2 in the
*Available gases* table, also indicated in the *Dive planner points* table). The third cylinder,
also EAN31, is a bailout cylinder which is, initially, not used.
In this case the plan is for a cave dive with a bottom time of 20 minutes
and the turning point in the bottom part of the dive is at 16 minutes (i.e. ten minutes
into the bottom part of the dive). The orange pO~2~ graph indicates the equivalent OC pO~2~ during
the dive and the green pO~2~ indicates the estimated pO~2~ in the loop, the
whole dive being performed in rebreather mode. We wish to plan
for a worst-case scenario with bailout at the turning point (i.e. the furthest point into
the cave). In the *Dive planner points* table, change the *Dive mode* of the last two segments
to *OC* (indicated in the left-hand image, labled *A*, below). In this case the existing EAN31
cylinder (Cyl.2 in the *Dive planner points* table is used for bailout (i.e. the bailout
cylinder [Cyl. 3] has not been used yet). Note that the pO~2~ graph now indicates the appropriate
pO~2~ values, since the gas breathed now has the pO~2~ of an OC configuration. In order to switch
to the bailout cylinder (Cyl. 3), indicate this by selecting the appropriate cylinder in the *Dive planner points* table as
indicated in the image on the right, below (labeled *B*). The icon on the depth profile
now shows an overlapping bailout event with cylinder change. As in the graph on the left, the appropriate
pO~2~ values are shown in the pO~2~ graphs. The volumes of gas required can be obtained at the bottom of the
*Dive plan details* panel.
image::images/pscr_b2.jpg["FIGURE: Planning a pSCR dive: setup",align="center"]
In the case of a pSCR dive plan for open water, the worst-case scenario is probably bailout at the end of the deepest part of the dive.
Create a 1-minute segment at the end of the deepest part of the dive plan. This
last segment (represented by the bottom row of the *Dive planner points* table) is then manipulated using the *Dive mode* and *Used gas*
columns, as in the cave example, above. See the example of bailout for a CCR dive, below, that uses this approach.
=== Planning CCR dives
@ -4044,6 +4078,7 @@ In order to plan for bailout to an external bailout cylinder, change the _Used
appropriate cylinder, as in the example on the left. Note that the cylinder change as well as the bailout are indicated with
overlapping icons.
The volumes of gases required for bailout can be found at the bottom of the *Dive plan details* panel.
[[S_Replan]]
=== Modifying an existing dive plan